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SketchUp Custom Toolbars

This is an update to Custom Toolbars plugin with the missing icons replaced. I must thank Nathan Cheever for his hard work on these icons.

This Plugin allows you to build your own customized Toolbars. Creating a Toolbar is easy; Custom Toolbars creates a "Toolbars" folder in your SketchUp Plugins folder. Create a .txt file in this Toolbars folder and give it the same name as you want the name of the Toolbar. Then, edit the .txt file and simply list the name of the tool you would like to appear in the Toolbar.

See the examples .txt file in the Toolbars folder.

This plugins needs to be enabled from the Preferences > Extensions Dialog. Toolbars are available in the View > Toolbars menu.

Example Toolbars

There 3 example toolbars available when you install the plugin:

The following image shows the buttons available for use in your own toolbars.

I'm an absolute beginner and was trying to set up my tool bar as per 'Google SketchUp- The Missing Manual.'When I dragged all the tools off the tool bar to start fresh, the tool bar disappeared. I can't figure out how to get it back.Any suggestions?

As Al Hart notes, the "Zoom Next" button doesn't work. Looking at the *.rb file for it, it appears to be messed up: There should be some sort of "Sketchup.send_action" command instead of "Zoom Next Not Implemented". Does someone know how to fix this? I presume it is just some simple text editing.

There's a small error in the Edge Styles.txt file. The final entry listed is "cycleEdgeColorMode". That is incorrect as the associated *.rb file is actually named just "EdgeColorMode.rb". Since the name is refernced wrong, that button winds up not being shown.

So, if you edit the *.txt to change "cycleEdgeColorMode" into just "EdgeColorMode" that button will now appear.

Amazing plugin! thanks again. One problem I'm having though is the "hide rest of model/hide similar components" commands don't do anything, the icons just remain clicked and nothing happens...any thought?

Thanks for having this post up, I've been using sketchup for years and just moved from 7pro to 2015pro, but I cant find the Custom Toolbars plugin for 2015. Does anyone know how to get this plugin/extension to work in 2015pro? or an equivalent. Any help will be really appreciated, these tools are so useful, I really cannot understand why they are not a standard tool bar option.